Weezer – Pork and Beans
The music video for Pork and Beans by Weezer is an homage to every viral web video. Ever.
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Download – Print – Cut – Fold
Cubecraft – Stormtrooper, The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, Iron Man, Mario etc. More (Sonic, Ninja Turtles etc) here.
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Revolt of the Lab Rats? Or Voyeur Caught Watching?
When your research subjects notice you watching…. The fine folks over at Little Green Footballs discovered
“a pile of results and code” from an observation of their on-line
discourse on a server at Carnegie Mellon. That led to a heated thread
of sometimes paranoid speculation that eventually calmed down
(somewhat) when the researcher’s academic advisors posted a good-natured mea-culpa (wea-culpa?) and explanation.
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Spain arrests ‘prolific’ hackers
Spanish police have arrested five hackers they describe as being among
the most active on the internet.
The hackers, who include two 16-year-olds, are accused of disrupting
government websites in the United States, Asia and Latin America.
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That’s just insane!
Some of the most insane journeys in recent time include Harry Lee ‘The Hawk’ McGinnis’ walk around the world, Helen Thayer’s 4,000-mile trek across the Sahara, Andrew Thompson’s speedwalk across the Appalachian Trail (2000 miles), and others.
These along with some of the other world records (epic journeys) should give you an idea of the limits of physical human endeavor.
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Eeek!
Tips for getting ahead in the increasingly competitive low cost small laptop market: When you go to Getty Images, grab some stock photography of smiling kids in a classroom and photoshop in your product, you better make sure your competitor hasn’t used the exact same image.
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Science of orgasm
This month’s Scientific American Mind unpacks the neurology of orgasm.
It summarizes some very intriguing and also controversial research. For
example, brain scans seem to show that orgasms aren’t just about
heightened arousal but also the silencing of the brain’s “center of
vigilance” to lose all inhibitions. From Scientific American Mind:
To find out whether orgasm looks similar in the female
brain (as it does in the male brain), (University of Groningen
neuroscientist Gert) Holstege’s team asked the male partners of 12
women to stimulate their partner’s clitoris–the site whose excitation
most easily leads to orgasm–until she climaxed, again inside a PET
scanner. Not surprisingly, the team reported in 2006, clitoral
stimulation by itself led to activation in areas of the brain involved
in receiving and perceiving sensory signals from that part of the body
and in describing a body sensation–for instance, labeling it “sexual.”But when a woman reached orgasm, something unexpected
happened: much of her brain went silent. Some of the most muted neurons
sat in the left lateral orbitofrontal cortex, which may govern
self-control over basic desires such as sex. Decreased activity there,
the researchers suggest, might correspond to a release of tension and
inhibition. The scientists also saw a dip in excitation in the
dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, which has an apparent role in moral
reasoning and social judgment–a change that may be tied to a suspension
of judgment and reflection.Brain activity fell in the amygdala, too, suggesting a
depression of vigilance similar to that seen in men, who generally
showed far less deactivation in their brain during orgasm than their
female counterparts did. “Fear and anxiety need to be avoided at all
costs if a woman wishes to have an orgasm; we knew that, but now we can
see it happening in the depths of the brain,” Holstege says. He went so
far as to declare at the 2005 meeting of the European Society for Human
Reproduction and Development: “At the moment of orgasm, women do not
have any emotional feelings.”
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Scary sign for giant edible “wings” in New York
Photoshop disasters posted this ad for humungous “wings.” The Monte Python sketch below is a good fit:
Customer: What flavor is it? Man: It’s a bird mate, it’s a bloody bird, it’s not any bloody flavor. Albatross!
Customer:
It’s got to be some flavor, I mean everything’s got a flavor. Man: All
right, it’s bloody albatross flavor, it’s bloody sea bloody bird bloody
flavor. Albatross!Customer: Do you get wafers with it?
Man: Course you don’t get bloody wafers with it, it’s a bloody albatross innit. Albatross!
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Man loses money trying to double it by marinading
In Norway, a French gentleman (F) told a Vietnamese gentleman (V) that
he could double his money using a special liquid solution. V gave F
$35,000, hoping to turn it into $70,000 overnight. Dumbass.
This unidentified man was told by a 32-year-old Frenchman
that if he mixed the real cash with blank bills and then marinate them
in a special liquid for one night, he would have double the amount of
the cash.The gullible Vietnamese believed the Frenchman’s story and gave
him 180,000 kroner (35, 000 U.S. dollars). But when he prepared to
collect his money the next morning, both the cash and the Frenchman
disappeared.
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Spying on our animal friends
We’re all used to animal cams at the zoo. You can watch animals in the wild or in captivity. But how about a live animal cam at…the library!
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Goin’ to the chapel and we’re / Gonna get ma-ha-harried!
The California Supreme Court has just overturned the state’s ban on same-sex marriages. Read the decision.
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What am I, chopped liver?
Geese are on the run once again in Chicago, as the City Council overturns its recent ban on foie gras, which had been prompted in part by prodding from animal rights activists. Many chefs (although not all) were furious when the ban was enacted, missing the “exquisite taste, silky texture.” They had threatened civil disobedience and even filed a lawsuit. And now epicurians as well as Jewish grandmothers rejoice.
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How to land at the Martian north pole.
Seven minutes of terror. A short video on describing how the Phoenix probe will land at the North Pole of Mars on May 25th. Follow updates to the mission via Twitter and the blog.
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The Essential Man’s Library
100 Must-Read Books (for dudes)
Men just have different … needs … than women, so apparently they
need to read different books as well. However (as a chick myself) I
tend to check this sort of thing out in a futile but ongoing attempt to
figure out men. Hmmph. Men. Go figure ….
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It’s a bird, it’s a plane… it’s…
Mr. Rossy is the first man to successfully fly with wings powered by four engines on his back.
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Spongebob Rectal Thermometer
Best rectal thermometer ever? And yes, it does play the theme song while taking your temperature.
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Рабоче-Крестьянская Красная Армия
Comrades! Glory once again in the display of Soviet Russian military might at the revitalized May Day Victory Day Parade!
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Woman remotely logs in to her stolen Mac to catch thieves
A woman whose apartment was burgled has caught the thieves by hacking
into the laptop they’d stolen and taking pictures of them. On Tuesday
last week, one of the victims received a phone call from a friend
asking her if she was online: she said no, and was told by the friend
that his computer showed her as being logged onto the web. At that
point, the victim signed onto another computer and used the “Back to My
Mac” programme to deduce that her stolen Mac was online, and that
someone was using it to shop on the internet. She then activated the
stolen computer’s camera, allowing her to “see” what was in front of
the laptop. At first she saw only an empty chair – but a little while
later she was able to photograph a man sitting in front of her stolen
laptop, and then his accomplice. The victim did not know either man but
showed the photos to one of her roommates, who recognized them as
having attended a get-together at the apartment a few weeks before the
burglary. The burglars, both men in their 20s, were arrested at their
New York homes on Wednesday, after the woman handed the photographs in
to the police. Around $5,000 (over ?2,500) worth of electrical
equipment was recovered.
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How to talk to the dead
But remember, talking to the dead can be dangerous.
“All peoples of earth posess this natural ability,” says Nicole
Zapruder, who has been communicating with the dead since she was 4
years old. People aren’t disputing her ability to use the Grey
Walter-Berger Neurophysical Construct for communicating with the dead.
They’re asking her not to share it online because the technique is too
dangerous.
“The noise and clutter of modern times serves to
distance people from nature and therefore the realization that this
gift is in us all,” Nicole argues. An important warning. “Do not
contact any dead person who may have negative feelings toward you…”
Coming in October? A site for communicating with your dead pet.
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How the world’s oceans are running out of fish
A tuna transport floating tank being towed from the fishing grounds off Libya to tuna ranches off Sicily, Italy. Photograph: AFP/Gavin Newman
The future of our seas has never been more precarious. Ninety years of
industrial-scale overfishing has brought us to the brink of an
ecological catastrophe and deprived millions of their livelihoods. As
scientific guidelines are ignored and catches become ever bigger.Is there anyone not aware that wild fish are in deep trouble? That
three-quarters of commercially caught species are over-exploited or
exploited to their maximum? Industrial fishing is
so inefficient that a third of the catch, some 32 million tonnes a
year, is thrown away. For every ocean prawn you eat, fish weighing
10-20 times as much have been thrown overboard.These figures all come
from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), which
also claims that, of all the world’s natural resources, fish are being
depleted the fastest. With even the most abundant commercial species,
we eat smaller and smaller amounts of fish every year, basically, we eat the babies before
they can breed.North Atlantic fish stocks have been in decline for well
over a century.Unlike global warming, the science of fish stock
collapse is old and its practitioners have been pretty much in
agreement since the 1950s.The Newfoundland cod fishery, for 500 years
the world’s greatest, was exhausted and closed in 1992, and there’s
still no evidence of any return of the fish. Once stocks dip below a
certain critical level, the scientists believe, they can never recover
because the entire ecosystem has changed.
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On Having a Black Name
“I am a white woman, a blond, blue-eyed white woman, and I have a first name
strongly associated with black women. My mother, a southerner by birth, never
stopped telling me she made the name up. The fact that she truly could not
remember ever hearing the name before, is a testament to the strength of
southern segregation. It is likely she heard it once or twice, and simply forgot
it until later. And so, even at 50 years old, I have a name that makes people do
a double-take. “You’re _____?” is something I have heard all my life. “Yes, that
would be me,” is what I say, as they look confused. I have upset the social
order. Names, I have learned, are a big, big part of it.”
RobDurdle.com 
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